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Pies to pavlovas. The culinary landscape of the Australian Hostess Cookbook (1969)In I969 the Australian Hostess Cookbook was published, edited by Hanna Pan. The Cookbook is in the form of …
The world’s second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia’s longest river – we’re bringing it backMurray crayfish disappeared from South Australia sometime in the past 40 years. Targeted surveys …
Whale is delicious’: The push to revive Japan’s whaling cultureIn a seminar room at Tokyo’s prestigious Waseda University last month, about 100 students and guests milled around makeshift tables adorned …
Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come Chocolate lovers already feeling the sting of high prices should brace for worse: costs will continue to rise as …
The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle …
Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian Food HistoryIn 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions …
The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffleThe native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for …
Labor’s first extinctionFor a bureaucratic document, the advice was startling in its direct conclusions: the “primary threat” to the skate was “habitat degradation from sustained reduction of dissolved oxygen” and …
This loophole in your food delivery app may be a hazard to your healthIn November 2022, it was recognised by all states and territories that a national approach to menu …
Solving the supermarket: why Coles just hired US defence contractor PalantirWhat Palantir sells is fundamentally a way of seeing. Its dashboards promise a God’s eye view that can stretch across an entire organisation …
Tucker-shoppingI read an article about tuckshops in Britain in an online food magazine recently and it set me remembering my tuckshop days at St. Joseph’s Primary School at Singleton in …
Do you know where your seafood has come from? Here’s why it mattersAustralians are in the dark about whether their Christmas lunch has been ethically sourced because of a lack …
Carrot Cake. An amusementThe food historian in me wondered when carrot cake made its first appearance at the Australian table, in what guise, how it developed over the years …